Not based on Vlad the Impaler! Part of the Ketcham family!

Compare the image of Walt Whitman to an early cover
picture of "Dracula." Note similarity of beard, nose, and eyes.

Walt Whitman was Bram Stoker's Hero and Friend

The main inspiration for the fictional character "Dracula" was not Vlad the
Impaler as is popularly believed, but writer Walt Whitman. Dracula expert
Professor Elizabeth Miller said "The inspiration
for his vampire novel was not Vlad the Impaler." Walt Whitman of
Western Suffolk County, Long Island was the 19th century's most important author
because he influenced important authors like Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. He was
an author that was read not so much by the public, but by the great authors.
Both Wilde and Stoker said he was the world's greatest author.

Bram Stoker
said that Walt Whitman was as "father, and brother and wife to his soul!" The
two had many years of correspondence and Stoker crossed the Atlantic to see him.
According to author Barbara Belford in "Bram Stoker (Page 46) "Whitman's
influence on Dracula was profound. As Stoker had written, Whitman was
"'father...to his soul,' an image reflecting a strange puzzle, particularly since
the vampire at times resembles Whitman. Each has long white hair, a heavy
moustache, great height and strength, and a leonine bearing. Whitman's poetry
celebrates the voluptuousness of death and the deathlike quality of love.
Particularly evocative is Whitman's poem 'Trickle Drops.'"

Blood Poetry by Walt Whitman

Trickle drops! my blue veins leaving!
O drops of me! trickle, slow drops,
Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops,
From wounds made to free you whence you were prison'd
From my face, from my forehead and lips,
From my breast, from within where I was conceal'd, press forth red drops,
confession drops,
Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops...

Whitman Related to Amityville Horror's John Ketcham

A little known fact is that Walt Whitman is a "Ketcham",
as in "John Ketcham" in the Amityville Horror legend. He is descended from Sarah
Ketchum, note the difference in spelling. Whitman was often to Amityville. The
Whitman's were Hicksite Quakers as was John Ketcham. The Hicksite meeting house
was in nearby Jericho and according to Gay Wilson Allen, Elias Hicks of Jericho
was "a lifelong friend of the Whitman's." (The Solitary Singer,
P. 7) Elias Hicks questioned the that Jesus was divine and the authority
of Holy Scripture. One of the leaders of the Spiritist movement was a member of
the Jericho Hicksite meeting house and his name was Isaac Post. He and John
Ketcham believed that people should communicate with the dead. It was in this
atmosphere that Walt Whitman was raised in.

Father of Gay Culture

There is something else about Walt Whitman that is significant. He is the
father of gay culture. Below are some quotes by Perry Brass about Walt Whitman
and Oscar Wilde. Whitman is called the "Father" of gay culture. This culture is
sometimes called the "Culture of Death."

"Their influence on us is as prevalent and intertwining, through rarely
overlapping, as the double helix strands that make up DNA. In fact, they are our
DNA. As forbears to a perceivable culture, they are the great mysteries,
monuments, and shadows of our lives."

"All of what we call, at the present, 'gay culture,' that is, the culture,
postures, public attitudes and perceptions of gay men-and, to a certain degree,
lesbians as well-has sprung from two sources, two fonts, certainly, and both of
these sources have last names that begin with the letter 'W.'"

"Whitman was our father, as Wilde was the magician who produced the magic act in
which he, more than anyone, disappeared." (Walt Whitman & Oscar
Wilde: Fountainheads of Gay Culture By Perry Brass http://gaytoday.com/garchive/people/010702pe.htm)

The book Dracula is of course full of homoerotic themes. Themes that came
from Walt Whitman.

After meeting Walt Whitman, Stoker said he was a "Master amongst men, and
called him "...the Master." Stoker biographer Barbara Belford said in regard to
this title, "...Master, one that Renfield uses for Dracula."

Dracula was in some ways symbolic for the effect that "The Master" Walt
Whitman had on people and society at the time.

Bram Stoker did not base Dracula on Vlad the Impaler.
Dracula had had long white hair. See above picture of Whitman, then compare
to Vlad.

On the left is a picture of Van Helsing. On the right is
author Robert Roosevelt. There are striking similarities between the two.
They are both Dutch, scientists, have a reputation of kindliness, "bushy
brows," etc. Robert Roosevelt also lived in Holland while an
ambassador in the 1880s-90s. (bioguide.congress.gov/ scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000428
)

Robert Roosevelt was friends with Oscar Wilde, who was a
guest at his home in
Sayville. Wilde, Stoker, Whitman and Roosevelt were in
the same "crowd."

EDITORIAL: The character "Dracula" represented Walt Whitman. Dracula was the
seducer who through stealth seduced the weak, ignorant and evil to his side.
Dracula's aim was to take society with his erotic ways. This is what Walt
Whitman was doing with his poetry. The person that stood in the way of Dracula
was Van Helsing that represented what was good and decent. The people at the
turn of the century that most represented what was good and decent were the Long
Island Roosevelts, especially President Theodore Roosevelt. Long Island's Walt
Whitman represented everything that was evil and indecent because he was a
proponent of the ungodly. What Walt Whitman started turned into a worldwide
movement. At the time the people who most strongly stood in his way were the
Long Island Roosevelts.

Congressman Robert Roosevelt was an author and friend of Oscar Wilde. Oscar
Wilde, like Bram Stoker, considered Walt Whitman the greatest writer. Bram
Stoker was even invited to the White House by Theodore Roosevlt. (education.yahoo.com/homework_help/
cliffsnotes/dracula/1.html )Although they were on opposite poles, in many
ways the Roosevelts were similar to the Wilde/Whitman group. Both groups were
intellectuals and avid writers. Robert Roosevelt was an early naturalist and was
the person that influenced Theodore to become a conservationist. Compare to how
Dracula is similar/opposite to Van Helsing, then compare how Whitman is
similar/opposite to Robert Roosevelt.

An example of how the Roosevelts stood in the way of the movement that
Whitman started, Theodore's son Archibald started the Veritas Society which was
an organization that fought against America's decline. One of their books was
entitled "The Great Deceit" about how the country was going downhill because of
leftists. Archibald Roosevelt set up the headquarters for this organization in
West Sayville, New York.

Although the Roosevelts did not agree with Oscar Wilde and friends on the way
society should go, they were people that they could get along in a social
context. The Dutch on Long Island were considered to be very conservative, which
was 180 degrees from where the Jericho Hicksites were.

President Roosevelt, like all
Roosevelts,
never to bowed down to Walt Whitman.

http://www.blooferland.com/drc/images/6/6d/Stoddard.rtf
Mr. Bram Stoker. A Chat with the Author of Dracula
Jane Stoddard [This interview, conducted by Jane Stoddard (“Lorna”), was
published in British Weekly, 1 July 1897, p. 185. It was reprinted in Dracula,
ed. Glennis Byron, pp. 484-488 ]
"Mr. Stoker told me that van Helsing is founded on a real character."

SarahKetchum was the
daughter of Edward
Ketchum and
SarahSalmon. Sarah Ketchum
was born circa 1640 at Hashamommock, Southold, Suffolk County, New York. Sarah
Ketchum was born in 1639. Sarah Ketchum was born circa 1642 at Stratford,
Fairfield County, Connecticut. She married
JosephWhitman circa 1660 at
Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. Ketcham was just a different spelling of
the same name in the same family. Also spelt Catchm.

Getting to know the Un-Dead: Bram Stoker, Vampires and

Dracula by Elizabeth Miller "The
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